Principled Humanitarian Action

  • IASC, Review of the Impact of UN Integration on Humanitarian Action, 2015

    Document Type: 
    IASC Product
    Product Category: 
    Principled Humanitarian Action
    Authoring Bodies: 
    IASC Reference Group on Principled Humanitarian Action
    Published Date: 
    July 14, 2017

    At the direction of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals, the IASC Task Team on Revitalizing Principled Humanitarian Action conducted a review of the impact of United Nations (UN) integration on humanitarian action. The review covered all applicable 18 integrated settings—defined as settings where a UN Country Team (UNCT) coexists with a UN peacekeeping operation (PKO) or special political mission (SPM).

    This report documents the entire spectrum of experiences that humanitarian actors raised in the course of this review as far as they relate to UN integration, but it does not explore broader concerns regarding the functioning of humanitarian action. While the recorded views do not necessarily represent the positions of the Task Team members or individual agencies, they do reflect the experiences, observations, and concerns of a wide range of humanitarian personnel across integrated settings. In particular, the review looked at implementation of the UN Integrated Assessment and Planning (IAP) Policy.

  • IASC Risk Management Toolkit, in relation to Counterterrorism Measures, 2015

    Risk Mangement Toolkit
    Document Type: 
    IASC Product
    Product Category: 
    Principled Humanitarian Action
    Authoring Bodies: 
    IASC Reference Group on Principled Humanitarian Action
    Published Date: 
    December 29, 2015

    This toolkit has been independently commissioned by Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) as part of the workplan of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Its purpose is to outline a range of counterterrorism measures and their links to humanitarian action and share practical examples and methods employed by organisations to address the impacts of these measures, especially with respect to risk management procedures.

    This toolkit is intended to contribute to an increased understanding of the connection between counterterrorism measures and humanitarian action and highlight steps that humanitarian organisations can take and are taking to address some of the main challenges and risks associated with these measures. The starting point is that principled humanitarian actors should seek to place their risk management procedures in relation to counterterrorism measures within the framework of the humanitarian principles and not vice-versa.

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